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The intellectual property of nations : sociological and historical perspectives on a modern legal institution
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ISBN: 1108182933 1108187722 1108196136 1107198976 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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Drawing on macro-historical sociological theories, this book traces the development of intellectual property as a new type of legal property in the modern nation-state system. In its current form, intellectual property is considered part of an infrastructure of state power that incentivizes innovation, creativity, and scientific development, all engines of economic growth. To show how this infrastructure of power emerged, Laura Ford follows macro-historical social theorists, including Michael Mann and Max Weber, back to antiquity, revealing that legal instruments very similar to modern intellectual property have existed for a long time and have also been deployed for similar purposes. Using comparative and historical evidence, this groundbreaking work reflects on the role of intellectual property in our contemporary political communities and societies; on the close relationship between law and religion; and on the extent to which law's obliging force depends on ancient, written traditions.


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Intellectual property and human rights: a paradox
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ISBN: 9781848444478 1848444478 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cheltenham Elgar

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In the modern era where the rise of the knowledge economy is accompanied, if not facilitated, by an ever-expanding use of intellectual property rights, this timely book provides a much needed explanation to the relationship between intellectual property law and human rights law. The contributors promote the view that this relationship should be central to the analysis of many of the profound problems that nation states and the international community encounter today, be they scientific, technological or cultural. The book is divided into sections covering the law and its trends, IP rights as human rights and human rights as restrictions to IP rights. This stimulating book will appeal to academics, postgraduate students, national and international public authorities and those involved with international organisations in the fields of intellectual property law and human rights law.

Intellectual property rights : a critical history.
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ISBN: 1588263630 1626370028 9781626370029 9781588263636 Year: 2006 Publisher: Boulder Rienner

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With intellectual property widely acknowledged today as a key component of economic development, those accused of stealing knowledge and information are also charged with undermining industrial innovation, artistic creativity, and the availability of information itself. How valid are these claims? Has the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement ushered in a new, better era? Christopher May and Susan Sell trace the history of social conflict and political machinations surrounding the making of property out of knowledge. Ranging from ancient commerce in Greek poems to present-day controversies about online piracy and the availability of AIDS drugs in the poorest countries, May and Sell present intellectual property law as a continuing process in which particular conceptions of rights and duties are institutionalized; each settlement prompts new disputes, policy shifts, and new disputes again. They also examine the post-TRIPs era in the context of this process. Their account of two thousand years of technological advances, legal innovation, and philosophical arguments about the character of knowledge production suggests that the future of intellectual property law will be as contested as its past.


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La gratuité, à quel prix ? : circulation et échanges de biens culturels sur Internet
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ISBN: 9782356712011 2356712011 Year: 2015 Publisher: Paris : Mines ParisTech,

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Le prix Nobel d'économie Milton Friedman l'a dit clairement : « un repas gratuit, ça n'existe pas ». Pourtant, le web semble remettre en cause cet axiome puisqu'il permet aux internautes d'accéder, sans dépense apparente, à une multitude de biens culturels. Que vaut cette gratuité numérique ? Faut il dans la continuité du rapport Lescure proposer une légalisation des échanges non marchands ? L'ouvrage explore ces notions et analyse trois secteurs qui constituent les principaux produits d'appel du marché de l'internet : l'audiovisuel, la musique et le livre. L'analyse des revenus que Spotify ou DpStream, iTunes ou Usenet, LastFM ou Popcorn, VLC ou Shazam, et bien d'autres encore, tirent de la circulation des biens culturels permet de comprendre leur place dans l'économie numérique. Derrière une même apparence de gratuité pour l'internaute, les modèles proposés ont des conséquences bien différentes. L'internaute devra lui aussi en payer le prix, sous forme directe ou indirecte, aujourd'hui ou demain tandis que les modalités de partage de valeur entre les acteurs économiques sont amenées à évoluer


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Google et le nouveau monde
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ISBN: 9782259212038 2259212034 Year: 2010 Publisher: [Paris] Plon

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Le président de la BNF analyse les bouleversements engendrés par la révolution numérique. Si elle offre des possibilités nouvelles à la création et à l'accès au savoir, elle a notamment des conséquences sur la chaîne du livre. L'auteur aborde ainsi les questions liées à la conservation des données numériques ainsi que le risque de monopole de nouveaux opérateurs tels que Google.


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Sharing
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ISBN: 9089643850 9786613522634 9048515343 1280118342 9789048515349 9789089643858 Year: 2012 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

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In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on the future of culture itself. To some, sharing constitutes piracy, to be fought against and eradicated. Others see it as unavoidable, and table proposals to compensate for its harmful effects. Meanwhile, little progress has been made towards addressing the real challenges facing culture in a digital world.


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Conceptions in the code : how metaphors explain legal challenges in digital times
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ISBN: 9780190650384 9780190650391 9780190650407 0190650389 0190650400 0190650419 0190650397 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

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Stefan Larsson's Conceptions in the Code makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis, representing a valuable contribution to conceptual metaphor theory. By utilising the case of copyright in a digital context it explains the role that metaphor plays when the law is dealing with technological change, displaying both conceptual path-dependence as well as what is called non-legislative developments in the law. The overall analysis draws from conceptual studies of "property" in intellectual property. By using Karl Renner's account of property, Larsson demonstrates how the property regime of copyright is the projection of an older regime of control onto a new set of digital social relations. Further, through an analysis of the concept of "copy" in copyright as well as the metaphorical battle of defining the BitTorrent site "The Pirate Bay" in the Swedish court case with its founders, Larsson shows the historical and embodied dependence of digital phenomena in law, and thereby how normative aspects of the source concept also stains the target domain. The book also draws from empirical studies on file sharing and historical expressions of the conceptualisation of law, revealing both the cultural bias of both file sharing and law. Also law is thereby shown to be largely depending on metaphors and embodiment to be reified and understood. The contribution is relevant for the conceptual and regulatory struggles of a multitude of contemporary socio-digital phenomena in addition to copyright and file sharing, including big data and the oft-praised "openness" of digital innovation.

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